There is a zip file with both 32 and 64 bit exe’s in there. This is on a low bandwidth server, but is only a tad over 1M in size, so be patient. If the load becomes too high I will transfer it to my high-bandwidth servers.

I have also written a version for Mac. If you are a Mac user and need it please PM me and I'll make it available.

The Download for the 4.5 Release Candidate is also affected. This utility will repair that as well.

Kendall

UPDATE:

New versions available for download. Handles new problems for those in need.

The utility has actually been available since yesterday and has been covered in the "Problems with older products (installer doesn`t work)" thread on Page 3 of the commons (http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/217/)

However, I have created this thread to hopefully make the utility more visible to those not searching the forums.

Thank you. It was thoughtful for you to do this utility and to share it. Hopefully having something like this will ease some of the frustration people feel, esp. those trying to complete projects with looming deadlines.

thanks a ton, the 64bit crashed on my Win7 64bit machine but the 32bit version worked flawlessly. This is a lifesaver, I just purchases some content yesterday and it won't work and Daz hasn't responded so your tool is the real winner.

thanks a ton, the 64bit crashed on my Win7 64bit machine but the 32bit version worked flawlessly. This is a lifesaver, I just purchases some content yesterday and it won't work and Daz hasn't responded so your tool is the real winner.

Please PM me with the details of the "crash" with the 64 bit version. I need the version of your Win7, as well as machine config, and of course any errors that were reported. There is nothing in the code that could cause a crash, so I'm very curious about what the issue is.

There is a zip file with both 32 and 64 bit exe’s in there. This is on a low bandwidth server, but is only a tad over 1M in size, so be patient. If the load becomes too high I will transfer it to my high-bandwidth servers.

I have also written a version for Mac. If you are a Mac user and need it please PM me and I'll make it available.

The Download for the 4.5 Release Candidate is also affected. This utility will repair that as well.

thanks a ton, the 64bit crashed on my Win7 64bit machine but the 32bit version worked flawlessly. This is a lifesaver, I just purchases some content yesterday and it won't work and Daz hasn't responded so your tool is the real winner.

Please PM me with the details of the "crash" with the 64 bit version. I need the version of your Win7, as well as machine config, and of course any errors that were reported. There is nothing in the code that could cause a crash, so I'm very curious about what the issue is.

Thanks.
Kendall

For those interested: the "crash" has been traced to Symantec Endpoint causing a problem with Window's FileDialog.

i downloaded all the versions of the program and tried them one after the other (sorry for my bad english, i'm french and i....didn't practice a lot ^^) the first ones told me that no problem was found, and the last version seems to do nothing at all (no message like the others, and no new .exe created)

i downloaded all the versions of the program and tried them one after the other (sorry for my bad english, i'm french and i....didn't practice a lot ^^) the first ones told me that no problem was found, and the last version seems to do nothing at all (no message like the others, and no new .exe created)

my system is : pc win7 64bits and poser 8

The program runs directly under Windows, from the Explorer. Poser should not be involved in any way.

You will get either a "Done." message if it found and fixed a problem, or a "No error found in a reasonable space" message if not.

I've been working on updating the DAZ Content downloader during the last week, and it appears that for some reason it doesn't corrupt the files like the browsers do. I've made MD5 compares between several files downloaded in the past, and the same files downloaded from the new store, and they're all 100% identical.

The downside is that if you download more than one file at a time you get error messages for half of the files, and they are not saved, because of some randomly occuring protocol error on the server (and you'll lose a retry each time a file errs). But it works if you only download one file at a time (at least I haven't had any errors yet, doing this).

If you've downloaded one of the damaged installers then you will run them through this utility to make them usable by Windows again.

First step is to click on "browse" for the input and then navigate to the damaged installer.

Next, click on "browse" for the output and type in a unique name for the output file. You may also select a filename from the dialog and change it. If you try to use an existing filename the utility will refuse to run.

Next, click on "Go" If the utility finds an error it can fix it will do so. Otherwise, it will tell you it can't and will exit.